SC Diana Katowice
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| Full name | Sports Club Diana Kattowitz 1905 eV | ||
| place | Katowice | ||
| Founded | February 13, 1905 | ||
| Dissolved | 1939 | ||
| Club colors | Black-white-green | ||
| Stadion | Green oak sports field | ||
| Top league | Gau Katowitz / District Championship Upper Silesia | ||
| successes | 1 × Upper Silesian Champion : 1912 | ||
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The Sport Club Diana Kattowitz was a German football club from the Upper Silesian Katowice .
Club history
The club was founded in 1905 after the collapse of the Frisch Auf Kattowitz sports club . Diana had chosen white-green-striped jerseys and black pants with belts as playing clothes. He received the name Diana from its first president Ernst Tschoche . In the early days, the club - it is said to have been influenced by Jews - had around 50 members, mostly young high school students and young employees of the Katowice railway management. Various training and match venues are mentioned in the sources: There is talk of a field of the Idaweiche and - a little away from the FC Preußen Kattowitz square next to the old rifle house on Nikolaistraße - an area on Beatestraße, for example where the 1913 Barracks of the military and later of the police stood on which the seats of Germania Kattowitz and "Diana" lay next to each other. The competitions in the Southeast German Football Association were soon afterwards - held by all Katowice associations - on the "horse market", which later became Andreasplatz.
In terms of football, Diana was clearly overshadowed by FC Prussia before the First World War, and at times the "Teutons" were also better. That changed - temporarily - in the 1911/12 season, when the green-blacks managed to win the Upper Silesian championship. However, this was preceded by a merger - however, a syndicate is more likely - with Borussia Myslowitz , founded in 1906 . The main reason for this unification of whatever kind was that both clubs went through an acute crisis of form in 1910/11. So the club management contacted each other, and in 1911 a Katowice-Myslowitz “football marriage” was concluded. An agreement was reached on the name and color of "Diana", who played in the highest class, and a competitive team was formed from the best players from both clubs - seven Diana and four Borussia players. Almost all of the board of directors was provided by the Dreikaisereck club in Myslowitz , only the - albeit particularly important - position of sports warden went to "Diana". The game was played on the previous Borussia-Platz in the Myslowitz district of Slupna - the Diana cracks were given a competitive venue for the first time.
The Diana-Borussia combination proved itself in every respect. Together, the two clubs with their 120 members represented a sporting and social power factor that could hardly be avoided. In terms of football, this already paid off in the 1911/12 season, when the Upper Silesian title was won for the first - and only - time and they failed in the southeast finals with 1: 2 to Germania Breslau . Then the "Combined" had to give way to the Prussians again before the First World War brought everything to a standstill. Almost all the players were drafted into the soldiers, half of the team never returned.
The end of the war also parted the successful "soccer marriage". Diana Kattowitz and Borussia - since 1919 "VfR 1906" - Myslowitz became two independent clubs again, but they could never again reach their high pre-war level. Diana played in Katowice again, but now on her own place. In 1922, after Katowice became Polish, the “Sport Club” Diana became the “Klub Sportowy” (KS) Diana. The Polish population group had already got on well before: The outstanding player was a Pole named Pawel Lubina, who had also been a member of the championship team from 1912. In 1920 Diana was the first German team to play an official game against a Polish club. Against Pogon Katowice there was a 2-2. During the entire interwar period Diana, who only played in the lower classes, had no problems with the Polish authorities or the Polish population group. This was to be her undoing in 1939 after the German invasion: The Nazi occupiers dissolved the club and installed a newly founded club called VfB Kattowitz in its place , which existed until 1944, but did not get beyond the lower leagues. After the war ended, Diana was not re-established in the new Polish state.
successes
- 1 × Upper Silesian champion and participant in the southeast finals : 1912
Known players
Individual evidence
literature
- Memories of Rudolf Fonfara, founder of FC Preußen Kattowitz (unpublished manuscript)
- Traditional community of Myslowitz Heimatvereine "Myslowitz - City at the former Dreikaiserreichsecke", without place and year
See also
1. FC Katowice , SC Germania Katowice
